IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/RRG
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Association for Research into Restricted Growth
Date(s): 1964-1988
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Shakespeare | Sir | William Geoffrey | 1927-1996 | 2nd Baronet | general practitioner
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Association for Research into Restricted Growth was co-founded by Dr Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, 2nd Baronet, (1927-1996), a general practitioner who took an interest in the conditions causing restricted growth. He had achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism or restricted growth. His son Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (b 1966) also has achondroplasia. The Association became a registered charity in 1970.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Association for Research into Restricted Growth, 1964-1988, now called the Restricted Growth Association, comprising administrative records, 1970-c 1988; records relating to the Association's links with other organisations, 1976-1987; publications; general correspondence, 1969-1987; correspondence concerning individual cases, 1972-1986; and biographical material relating to Dr William Geoffrey Shakespeare.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Available subject to the usual conditions of access to material in Archives and Manuscripts, by appointment after completion of a Reader's Undertaking, except for the files containing correspondence on individual cases, which are closed for reasons of Data Protection, for periods until 2074-2087.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Papers received from Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet and son of the co-founder of the Association, in 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008